Boomerang, 1998

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

150 x 100 cm

$6,500

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Provenance: Katherine Art Gallery, Katherine, NT, Cat No. P-923 Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW Artback NT, Darwin, NT Private Collection NSW
Exhibited: Yulyurlu – Lorna Fencer Napurrurla (Artback NT touring exhibition, curated by Margie West): Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin NT, 3 – 28 August 2011 Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra ACT, 10 November – 18 December 2011 Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide SA, 13 April – 26 May 2012 RMIT Gallery, Melbourne Vic, 29 June – 25 August 2012 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst NSW, 28 September – 18 November 2012 Noosa Regional Gallery, Tewantin Qld, 29 November 2012 – 20 January 2013 Artspace Mackay, Mackay Qld, 1 February – 17 March 2013 Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre, Katherine NT, 5 April – 17 May 2013
Literature / Illustrated: West, Margie (ed.), *Yulyurlu: Lorna Fencer Napurrurla*, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, South Australia, 2011, p. 112
Artwork story: Lorna Napurrula Fencer was a senior Warlpiri artist born at Yartulu Yartulu. She was custodian of the inherited lands of Yumurrpa in the Tanami Desert. She began painting in the mid 1980s and is now widely acknowledged as one of the great Warlpiri artists from Lajamanu. She was a custodian of the Dreamings associated with bush potato, caterpillar, bush onion, yam, bush tomato, bush plum, many different seeds, and, importantly, water. This painting tells the Dreamtime story of men of the Tjupurrula and Tjakamarra skin groups hunting for foods to eat. They are shown disguised amongst their boomerangs in this lively and expressive work by an artist for whom these skin groups are brother and father. This work was featured in the artist's posthumous touring retrospective exhibition, Yulyurlu.

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Lorna Naparrula Fencer

c.1924–1925 – 2006

Region: Central Desert & Tanami
Community: Lajamanu
Language group: Warlpiri

Boomerang, 1998

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

150 x 100 cm

$6,500

Secure payment via Stripe. Prices in AUD.

Provenance: Katherine Art Gallery, Katherine, NT, Cat No. P-923 Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW Artback NT, Darwin, NT Private Collection NSW
Exhibited: Yulyurlu – Lorna Fencer Napurrurla (Artback NT touring exhibition, curated by Margie West): Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin NT, 3 – 28 August 2011 Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra ACT, 10 November – 18 December 2011 Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide SA, 13 April – 26 May 2012 RMIT Gallery, Melbourne Vic, 29 June – 25 August 2012 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst NSW, 28 September – 18 November 2012 Noosa Regional Gallery, Tewantin Qld, 29 November 2012 – 20 January 2013 Artspace Mackay, Mackay Qld, 1 February – 17 March 2013 Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre, Katherine NT, 5 April – 17 May 2013
Literature / Illustrated: West, Margie (ed.), *Yulyurlu: Lorna Fencer Napurrurla*, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, South Australia, 2011, p. 112
Artwork story: Lorna Napurrula Fencer was a senior Warlpiri artist born at Yartulu Yartulu. She was custodian of the inherited lands of Yumurrpa in the Tanami Desert. She began painting in the mid 1980s and is now widely acknowledged as one of the great Warlpiri artists from Lajamanu. She was a custodian of the Dreamings associated with bush potato, caterpillar, bush onion, yam, bush tomato, bush plum, many different seeds, and, importantly, water. This painting tells the Dreamtime story of men of the Tjupurrula and Tjakamarra skin groups hunting for foods to eat. They are shown disguised amongst their boomerangs in this lively and expressive work by an artist for whom these skin groups are brother and father. This work was featured in the artist's posthumous touring retrospective exhibition, Yulyurlu.